Scan Exclusions

The
'Scan Exclusions' panel shows files, paths and certificate
authorities which you have chosen to skip during a scan.

Items
may have been added to this because you selected 'Ignore' at the window, or have added them as exclusion at an alert.

The
'Exclusions' panel shows paths and files which you have chosen to
'Ignore' at
the' Scan
Results' window,
or have added as an exclusion at an
antivirus alert.

To open the 'Scan Exclusions' panel

Click
'Settings' at the top of the CIS home screen

Click
'Advanced Protection' > 'Scan Exclusions' on the left

The Exclusions panel has three tabs:

Excluded Paths - A list of paths/folders/files on your computer which are not included in real-time, on-demand and scheduled antivirus scans. See Excluding
Drives/Folders/Files from all types of scans for more details on
adding and removing exclusion items in this interface.

Excluded
Applications - A list of applications which are not included in real-time antivirus scans. Items can be excluded by clicking 'Ignore' in the virus Scan
Results or by clicking 'Ignore' at an Antivirus
Alerts or by excluding it manually. Note - excluded items are skipped by the real-time scanner but will be scanned during on-demand scans. See Excluding
Programs/Applications from real-time scans for more details on
manually adding and removing exclusions.

Other
categories include 'Windows System Applications', 'Windows Updater
Applications' and 'Start Up Folders'.

CIS ships with a set of predefined file groups which can be viewed in Advanced Settings > File Rating > 'File Groups'. You can also add new file groups here which will be displayed in the predefined list.

To add new file groups:

Click 'Add' > 'File Groups' and select the type of 'File Group' from the list:

The file groups will be added to
'Excluded Paths'.

Repeat the process to add more file groups. Items added to the 'Excluded Paths' will be omitted from all types of future Antivirus scans.

Adding a Drive Partition/Folder

Click
'Settings' on the CIS home screen

Click
'Antivirus' > 'Scan Exclusions'

Select
'Excluded Paths'

Click
'Add' > 'Folders'

Navigate
to the drive partition or folder you want to add to excluded paths
and click 'OK'.

The folder/partition will be added to the list of excluded items:

Repeat
the process to add more folders. Items added to 'Excluded Paths'
will be omitted from all types of antivirus scans in future.

Adding an individual File

You can
specify even individual files as excluded path.

Click
'Settings' on the CIS home screen

Click
'Antivirus' > 'Scan Exclusions'

Select
'Excluded Paths'

Click
'Add' > 'Files'

Navigate
to the file you want to add to excluded paths and click 'OK'.

The file will be added to excluded paths:

Repeat process to add more paths.

Items added to 'Excluded Paths' will be omitted from all types of virus scan in the future.